Baseball Heroes Quotes

When I played Little League, I looked up to the big leaguers, too, and collected their baseball cards.

You can play football and be the next Jim Brown or play baseball and be the next Reggie Jackson.

Baseball was the darling of all sports back then.

I was taught coming up in the Phillies organization to be seen and not heard by people like Pete Rose, my hero growing up, and players like Mike Schmidt and Steve Carlton and Manny Trillo.

I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.

I don't want people to forget Babe Ruth. I just want them to remember Henry Aaron.

The Yankees have twenty-five heroes.

As much as I loved Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Junior Gilliam, and Don Newcombe, I loved watching Willie Mays play more than all of them combined, even if he played for the 'bad guys!'

I wouldn't trade my life with anybody else. I played during the golden day of baseball, back when it was a game and when it was fun.

The final ballots represent players, managers, executives and builders who are top-tier candidates and worthy of review for consideration for election to the Hall of Fame.

Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.

In baseball, there is something electrifying about the big leagues. I had read so much about Stan Musial, Ted Williams and Jackie Robinson. I had put those guys on a pedestal. They were something special. I really thought they put their pants on different, rather than one leg at a time.

I've had heroes in my life - Joe DiMaggio, Babe Ruth.

I had some great role models along the way. My on-field heroes were the great Ernie Banks, Billy Williams, and Willie Mays. I wanted to be like them on the field, and I am so damn proud to join them in the Hall of Fame.

One of the perks of being an actor is to get to meet athletes that you respect. Especially who played before my time. Brooks Robinson is one of those athletes; they just don't make them any nicer.

A lot of my friends and guys who I have watched and grew up with and who have been at my house are Hall of Famers, and I just know them as Ozzie Smith, Eddie Murray, Kirby Puckett, Dave Winfield... I know these guys like my older brothers and uncles, the guys who took care of me.

You think about when you're kids and see these guys on TV, and now you're in the same clubhouse as Chipper Jones and Bobby Cox.